- Concentration Camp: A place where the Jew’s were taken during the second world war, where they worked, imprisoned and killed.
- Conscription: A compulsory enlistment for a state service, typically into the armed forces.
- Allies: US, Britain, USSR, China, France, Australia, Belgium, Canada
- Axis: Germany, Japan, and Italy
- Dictator: A ruler who employs absolute authority.
- The Third Reich: ‘Third Reich’ was a term used to describe the Nazi government in Germany from 1933 – 1945. The Nazi’s rising to power marked the beginning of ‘The Third Reich’, it ended a parliamentary democracy established in defeated Germany after the end of WW1.
- Nazism: A set of political beliefs associated by the Nazi Party in Germany.
- Fascism: An authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization.
- Communism: The political and economic doctrine that aims to replace private property and a profit-based economy with public ownership.
- Troops: Troops are the soldiers in an army.
- Austerity: Set of policies with the aim of reducing government budget shortages. (e.g. In crease in tax, spending cuts)
- Blitzkrieg: A German term for “lightening war”. It is a military tactic designed to create disorganisation among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces.
- Atomic bomb: A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions.
- Appeasement: To stop a war
- Armament: The people don’t care and would go to war. (start war)
- WW2: WWII began after the ‘Great War’ from 1939-1945, caused by prior conflict events that triggered it. It included many of the world’s nations ultimately forming 2 opposite military alliances the Allies and the Axis.
- Nagasaki/ Hiroshima: The US dropped an Atomic bomb on both these cities which killed thousands of people immediately but also causing Japan to surrender and initiating an end to the war.
- Tyranny: The government or rule of a tyrant or absolute ruler.
- Propaganda: Ideas that often false or exaggerated and spread in order to help a political leader or government.
- Censorship: The suppression of speech or public communication which may be considered as offensive, harmful, politically incorrect as determined by government, media or authorities.
- Rations: A fixed amount of commodity officially allowed to each person during wartime.
- Genocide: The deliberate killing of people in a large group of people, especially those of a particular nation or religion.
- Holocaust: The Holocaust is when the Nazi’s killed and slaughtered the Jews in Germany during the Second World War.